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This page covers installing nodejs and qunit port under Mac OS X and GNU/Linux Debian.

new node-qunit

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qunit-port is being refactored under github branch 'refactoring'. This include the original QUnit source code but require unstable NodeJS version > 0.5

Possible node modules prerequisites:

  • argsparser
  • bunker
  • cli-table
  • chainer
  • underscore
  • tracejs
  • jsdom
  • jquery

With home brew, to install them globally with all dependencies use:

$ npm-g install argsparser bunker cli-table chainer underscore tracejs jsdom jquery

More prerequisites might be needed.

nodejs 0.5.9 (homebrew)

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As of October 18th, homebrew does not ship a NodeJS 0.5 version which is unstable.

NodeJS 0.5.7 and 0.5.8 is missing child_process.fork on Mac OS X 10.7.

You have to add a node-unstable node-unstable formula for this. The provided version come from a Github commit in bramswenson/homebrew fork. I have manually updated it to install version v0.5.9, thus you can add it to your homebrew formula with the command:

Grab the formula from github at https://gist.github.com/1295768 and add it as node-unstable.rb in your brew directory. You will then be able to install NodeJS 0.5.9. Then install that NodeJS using the downloaded formula:

$ brew install node-unstable

Note: you might want to uninstall the previous, stable, node installation with 'brew uninstall node'.

Once installed, make sure you have a v0.5.x node installed:

$ node --version
v0.5.9
$

Mac OS X install

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prerequisites

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Install language interpreters python 2.7 and node.js. On a Mac OS X Computer, it will be with the port command (see MacPorts):

$ sudo port install python2.7
$ sudo port install node  # got me node 0.4.8

Then install "Node Package Manager" (npm) with a small risk of getting hacked in the way:

# curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  3874  100  3874    0     0   8970      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 13451
fetching: http://registry.npmjs.org/npm/-/npm-1.0.6.tgz
/tmp/npm.50407/package
0.4.8
1.0.6
prefix=/opt/local

This script will find and eliminate any shims, symbolic
links, and other cruft that was installed by npm 0.x.

Is this OK? enter 'yes' or 'no' 
yes  <--- enter 'yes' and press return :)

All clean!
! [ -d .git ] || git submodule update --init
node cli.js cache clean
node cli.js rm npm -g -f --loglevel error
node cli.js install -g -f
/opt/local/bin/npm -> /opt/local/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm.js
node-uuid@1.1.0 /opt/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-uuid
npm@1.0.6 /opt/local/lib/node_modules/npm
It worked
#

Then install node-qunit ( https://github.com/kof/node-qunit ) using the node package manager:

$ sudo npm install qunit

> qunit@0.1.5 install ~/node_modules/qunit
> make install

  ... output of ./configure && make && make install

argsparser@0.0.5 ./node_modules/qunit/node_modules/argsparser
uglify-js@1.0.2 ./node_modules/qunit/node_modules/sharedjs/node_modules/uglify-js
sharedjs@0.0.2 ./node_modules/qunit/node_modules/sharedjs
qunit@0.1.5 ./node_modules/qunit

setup profile and check installation

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You should have something like:


$ sudo npm list
/path/to/home
└─┬ qunit@0.1.5 
  ├── argsparser@0.0.5 
  └─┬ sharedjs@0.0.2 
    └── uglify-js@1.0.2 
$

NPM actually install the requested modules under /path/to/home/node_modules/ and then use a symbolic link to publish the binary. The folder can be found by using npm bin:

$ npm bin
/path/to/home/node_modules/.bin
$

You might want to append that binary path to your PATH environment variable:

# node.js
NODE_PATH="/Users/hashar/node_modules"
export PATH=$PATH:"$NODE_PATH/.bin"

At this step, you should be ready to run qunit :

$ which qunit
/path/to/home/node_modules/.bin/qunit
$ qunit -h

Usage: cli [options] value (boolean value can be used)

...

Please use the -h switch when invoking qunit or it might just throw an exception.

Mac OS X (with homebrew)

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$ brew install node
$ brew install npm

Make sure to update your NODE_PATH env variable in your .bashrc. Brew use /usr/local as a prefix, so you should add:

export NODE_PATH="/usr/local/lib/node_modules"

Then install the node module globally with npm-g (alias set up by homebrew):

$ npm-g install qunit

This will install the stable version. As of October 18th 2011, this mean using an outdated QUnit port which do not support stop(timeout) method.


GNU/Linux (Debian)

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As of July 2011, you have to use unstable release to install node and npm. You can backport unstable packages in your testing release by adding unstable in your /etc/apt/sources.list and updating your /etc/apt/preferences:

/etc/apt/sources.list

# Please note the URL http://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.debian.org/ might be different
# for your local setup. The important thing is adding a line with 'unstable' :)
 
# Testing source list:
deb http://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.debian.org/ testing main contrib non-free
# Unstable source list:
deb http://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.debian.org/ unstable main contrib non-free

/etc/apt/preferences

Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 900

Package: *
Pin: release o=debian
Pin-Priority: -10

Then update using apt-get update and install the package with the target unstable:

 $ apt-get install -t unstable nodejs npm

Debian should take care of everything for you. Then install qunit:

$ npm install qunit
 <snip>
$

Debian install symbolic links in your ~/bin . Make sure it is in your PATH. You will end up with something like:

$ ls -l ~/bin/qunit*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 hashar hashar  13 16 juil. 19:46 /home/hashar/bin/qunit -> ./qunit@0.1.5*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 hashar hashar 708 16 juil. 19:46 /home/hashar/bin/qunit@0.1.5*
$

Jquery and DOM

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Install Jquery and a javascript DOM for node is really easy, using the Node Package Manager of course!

jQuery for node:

$ npm install jquery
htmlparser@1.7.3 ./node_modules/jquery/node_modules/htmlparser
mjsunit.runner@0.1.3 ./node_modules/jquery/node_modules/jsdom/node_modules/mjsunit.runner
request@1.9.5 ./node_modules/jquery/node_modules/jsdom/node_modules/request
jsdom@0.1.20 ./node_modules/jquery/node_modules/jsdom
jquery@1.5.1 ./node_modules/jquery
$

DOM in node:

$ npm install jsdom
request@1.9.5 ./node_modules/jsdom/node_modules/request
htmlparser@1.7.3 ./node_modules/jsdom/node_modules/htmlparser
jsdom@0.2.0 ./node_modules/jsdom
$

Verifying install

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We will do the first node run and verify jQuery and DOM seems fine.

Create a JavaScript file with the following content (From https://github.com/coolaj86/node-jquery) :

var jsdom = require( 'jsdom' ).jsdom,
    newWindow = jsdom().createWindow(),
    $ = require( 'jquery' ),
    jQuery = require( 'jquery' ).create( newWindow );

$("<h1>test passes</h1>").appendTo("body");
console.log( $("body").html()  )

Then run the above code using node:

$ node qunit_start.js 
<h1>test passes</h1>
$

Congratulations! You have everything needed :-)